What Stéphane spoke about.

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Jun

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you, rapporteur, for the time and, of course, we share and I share, personally, as you know, the urgency of the situation and our ability to deliver more and more quickly, in a world that is changing and that also imposes on us a form of agility and flexibility that was not the case until a few months ago. You therefore raise the essential issue of the imp…

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May

2025

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Single Market Strategy (debate)

Mr President, first of all, I would like to go back to the context. Few interventions mentioned the context, but it is important in this strategy. The European internal market has become a safe haven for European companies in the event of market closures. It is important because we must prepare for a market closure on the other side of the Atlantic and reduce our dependence on China. These two axe…

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May

2025

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Single Market Strategy (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I had the opportunity at the last plenary session in Strasbourg to hear your proposals and expectations on the single market. It is therefore an honour to come back to you today to present the recommendations and the Single Market Strategy put forward by the College of Commissioners in recent weeks, which it has just adopted. I wanted to thank parliamentarians f…

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May

2025

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Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market (debate)

Mr President, Mr Sieper, I am sorry, I will speak French, but I believe you have the translation. Perhaps I will give you a few convictions as a result of this debate. First of all, one conviction is that we cannot look at our internal market strategy in silos, as has probably been the case a great deal in recent mandates. Given the current international context, a new economic balance needs to be…

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May

2025

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Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I obviously thank the European Parliament for this debate, and I thank you in particular, Madam President Cavazzini, because your oral question covers all the major issues relating to the internal market. It also reaffirms its essential role for Europe's prosperity. This is also the ambition of the Single Market Strategy, which the Commission will present in exa…

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Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Madam President, I will be brief, as in the last debate I concluded at length and exceeded my speaking time. Let's start with some lessons to be learned from the period we have just experienced on the geopolitical level, especially regarding the energy implications. With regard to Russian gas – since the question is still why we had an inflationary energy price crisis – the Commission’s objective …

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Apr

2025

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Energy-intensive industries (debate)

Madam President, on behalf of the European Commission, I would like to thank Parliament, and in particular the ITRE Committee, for putting the topic of energy-intensive industries on the agenda of this session. This debate allows us to continue the discussion we had on the Steel and Metals Action Plan, published on 19 March. This shows how much the European Union recognises both the economic weigh…

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Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, first of all, I note a form of unanimity and an invitation to swift implementation. This is good, it is also the ambition of the Commission: Go fast. The international geopolitical context, on this particular day that President Trump has chosen to call Liberation Day, also calls for urgency. There is a sense of urgency, but it is not just a feeling: for the steel and metals sector…

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Apr

2025

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European Steel and Metals Action Plan (debate)

Madam President, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, I am delighted to inaugurate this new method with you, and I do not need to recall here how the steel and metal industry is at the heart of the European project: Beyond the aspirations for peace and shared prosperity, the European project started with the steel industry. On this particular day, which Donald Trump called Liberation Day, the economic …

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, I would like to thank all Members for this enlightening debate, which shows that we still need to make progress towards consensus on decarbonising our economy. In fact, since the war in Ukraine and the end of the supply of low-cost Russian gas, our decarbonisation strategy has become an economic strategy, as we need to produce energy on our continent by reducing the risks associat…

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Mar

2025

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Clean Industrial Deal (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for giving us the opportunity today to discuss the proposals that the European Commission published on 26 February. With this plan, we are empowering to decarbonise and reindustrialise at the same time – more than €100 billion in all. Indeed, decarbonising our industry is not just an environmental issue; it is also a growth strategy and a security i…

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Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, perhaps a few words first of all to tell you that this compass for competitiveness has not come out of nowhere. It was worked on with all the political groups at the time of the constitution of the majority in this Chamber and it is 80% of the result of the reports which you yourself voted for in this Chamber, in this debate, the Draghi and Letta reports. The…

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Feb

2025

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Competitiveness Compass (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Minister, on behalf of the European Commission, I am pleased to take part in this debate on the compass for competitiveness. As its name suggests, its ambition is to set a course for the European Union in these times of economic and geopolitical uncertainty. More than ever, we need a shared goal and objectives, and in particular to have the elements of the path …

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Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, I will not risk summarising or drawing lessons from your debate. The Commission will therefore be left with a number of lessons that we can draw collectively, in this debate which is fundamental, which is a debate on competitiveness and which we will have in the next discussion and in the next hour with all the Members of the European Parliament around the fight for competitiveness, …

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Feb

2025

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Collaboration between conservatives and far right as a threat for competitiveness in the EU (topical debate)

Mr President, Minister, ladies and gentlemen, at a time when we are doing everything possible to create the conditions for the competitiveness of the European economy – and this will be the subject of the next debate on the compass for competitiveness – it was important to look at the interaction between the political environment, the confidence of economic actors and competitiveness. Following th…

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Dec

2023

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Review of the Spanish Presidency of the Council (debate)

Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Government, ladies and gentlemen, an end-of-term presidency of the Council is always a challenge. The expectations are immense, and rightly so. It takes seriousness and consistency. So my group – and I am obliged to start there – would have preferred that this beginning of the presidency was not polluted by the arrival of national issues on the Europe…

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Nov

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Nikolay Denkov (debate)

Madam President, Prime Minister, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Prime Minister, for this very pro-European speech. Your government, following on from the previous one, has also breathed new life into Bulgaria and in particular into the European aspects. That is what I am speaking about today. This wind is European, as I said, it is progressive. Above all, it is welcome and it is this new energy …

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Nov

2023

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Urgent need for immediate measures against the rise of antisemitism (statement by the President)

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, never again. This is one of the promises we made together after the Second World War. This is one of the reasons for a united Europe. Never again: Children, women and men murdered because they were Jews. Never again: insults, assaults, harassment, tags, ransacking. Never again: fear of …

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Oct

2023

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A true geopolitical Europe now (topical debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr High Representative, Renew proposes starting this debate because the last few weeks have shown the urgency for Europe to recover geopolitically. Our citizens are worried: they call for a Europe that speaks loudly, clearly and in unison, a Europe that is powerful. Mr High Representative, my group believes that what we have acquired as political capital, bot…

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Oct

2023

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The despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza (debate)

Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the suffering of the world has once again shaken our continent. The absolute barbarity of Hamas’ atrocities against Israeli civilians is undermining each and every one of us. Terrorism has struck again, and we stand with the Israeli people, just as the Israeli people stood with us in the face of terrorism. I would like to reiterate in the strongest possible t…

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam Speaker, our colleague Lamberts always has good end quotes. First of all, I would like to thank all the speakers, and also my colleagues from the EPP, S&D and the Greens on the end of the term of office and being useful on the latest texts – there are still some this afternoon, especially on air quality. Majorities and ambitious processes are needed to achieve this. As you have understood, M…

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Sep

2023

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State of the Union (debate)

Madam President, Madam President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, this plenary session on the State of the Union is not like any other. It is the last of the mandate, it is the last before the European elections. As you have said, Madam President, the past four years have been among the most significant in the recent history of European integration. Renew Europe is proud to have been in ch…

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Jul

2023

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Nature restoration (debate)

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are here. After weeks of debate, of overbidding, we are called to decide on the law on the restoration of nature. Personally, I believe in an ambitious law. My group believes in a text that can bring together all those who care about ecology, all those who have supported the Green Deal from the beginning. But, let's say, the debate has slipped. It slipped on …

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Jun

2023

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This is Europe - Debate with the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides (debate)

Madam President, Mr President, let me first welcome you to the European Parliament. By electing you, the Cypriots have reaffirmed their European ambition, but have also demonstrated that they do not like the status quo imposed on them. It is always a good signal of democratic vitality. As you know, Mr President, my group is particularly attentive to reformers and pro-Europeans who are shaking up c…

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Jun

2023

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Order of business

Madam President, we had a proposal for a debate that was not instrumentalising, which also had some form of responsibility on this issue. This European Parliament voted a few weeks ago on the negotiating mandates on the asylum and migration pact, and Mr Bardella voted against it. He comes back to us with an instrumentalisation of a different fact in France, a horror that happened in Annecy, to ins…